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| − | '''<span style="color: #bb0000; font-size: larger;">*</span> Welcome to the ESP Wiki <span style="color: #bb0000; font-size: larger;">*</span>'''<br />
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| − | (For ''End Software Patents<nowiki>'</nowiki>'' campaign site, see http://endsoftpatents.org)
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| − | Here you'll find information to assist campaigns against software patents.<br />
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| − | You're also invited to contribute: all {{NUMBEROFARTICLES}} pages are publicly editable.<br />
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| − | (What's new? See: [http://en.swpat.org/wiki?title=Special:RecentChanges&days=30&limit=500 Recent Changes])
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| − | '''Getting started:''' [[finding things on en.swpat.org]] • [[Talk:Discuss this wiki|Discuss this wiki]] • [[Why abolish software patents]]
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| − | ==Why abolish software patents==
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| − | * [[All businesses are targets]]
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| − | * [[Antitrust doesn't work]]
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| − | * [[Blocking innovation and research]]
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| − | * [[Blocking useful freedoms]]
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| − | * [[Blocks competing software, reducing choice]]
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| − | * [[Breaks software distribution methods]]
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| − | * [[Controlling entire markets]]
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| − | * [[Costs are astronomically disproportionate for SMEs and individuals]]
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| − | * [[Costs of the patent system to governments]]
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| − | * [[Examples of use for sabotage]]
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| − | * [[Freedom of expression]]
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| − | * [[Harm to standards]]
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| − | * [[Harms to education]]
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| − | * [[Hindering competition, obstructing the free market]]
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| − | * [[Incompatible timespans]]
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| − | * [[Infringement is unavoidable]]
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| − | * [[Insurance against patent litigation doesn't work]]
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| − | * [[Invalid patents remain unchallenged]]
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| − | * [[Jobs and skills]]
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| − | * [[Just a Use of the Patented General Purpose Computer]]
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| − | * [[Low risk]]
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| − | * [[Patent ambush]]
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| − | * [[Patent trolls]]
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| − | * [[Publishing information is made dangerous]]
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| − | * [[Software is math]]
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| − | * [[Software is too abstract, patent quality is bad]]
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| − | * [[Software patents harm SMEs]]
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| − | * [[Software progress happens without patents]]
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| − | * [[Speculation]]
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| − | * [[The disclosure is useless]]
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| − | * [[The failing solutions are expensive]]
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| − | * [[Inequality between small and large patent holders]]
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| − | {{also|:Category:Arguments|list of arguments}}
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| − | ==Dispelling myths==
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| − | * [[Protecting small inventors myth]]
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| − | * [[Some SMEs like software patents myth]]
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| − | * [[Patent standards here are higher than the USA]]
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| − | * [[The win-win patent myth]]
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| − | ==Partial steps toward our goal==
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| − | * [[Interoperability exceptions]]
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| − | * [[Invalidate patents based on subject matter]]
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| − | ==Insufficient and failing remedies==
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| − | The following '''are not solutions'''. None will solve the problem, many are inefficient wastes of time, and some even make the situation worse.
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| − | [[Insufficient and failing remedies]]:
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| − | * [[Defensive patent pools]]
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| − | * [[Prior art database]] including "defensive publication"
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| − | * [[Patent clauses in software licences]]
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| − | * [[Community patent review]]
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| − | * [[Invalidate the most harmful]]
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| − | * [[Raising examination standards]]
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| − | * [[Defensive patenting]]
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| − | * [[Changing company patent policy]]
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| − | * [[Insurance against patent litigation doesn't work]]
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| − | * [[Antitrust doesn't work]]
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| − | * [[Competition law defence]]
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| − | {{also|:Category:Non-solutions}}
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| − | ==Campaigning notes==
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| − | * [[Organising a campaign]]
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| − | * [[Formulating arguments]]
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| − | * [[Making leaflets]]
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| − | * What '''not''' to suggest: [[Insufficient and failing remedies]]
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| − | ==Helping out==
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| − | * [[Links to be processed]]
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| − | * [[Ideas for info to gather]]
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| − | * [[Please help find these documents]]
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| − | * [[Talk:Discuss this wiki]]
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| − | * There's a [[sandbox]] page for test edits
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| − | * [[:Category:En.swpat.org]]
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| − | ==Specific domains==
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| − | * [[micro-blogging patents]]
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| − | * [[audio-video patents]]
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| − | * [[XML patents]]
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| − | * [[Webpage and web service patents]]
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| − | * [[Image processing patents]]
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| − | * [[HTML5 and video patents]]
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| − | * [[Harm to standards]]
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| − | ==Unsorted==
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| − | * [[Cablegate info on software patents]]
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| − | * [[Corruption and bullying]]
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| − | * [[Free software]]
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| − | * [[Legal wordings]]
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| − | * [[List of recordings and transcripts]]
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| − | ** [[Boston swpat conference 2006 videos]]
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| − | * [[Patent lawyer]]
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| − | * [[Patent non-aggression pacts]]
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| − | * [[Patent promises]]
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| − | * [[Patents possibly violated by swpat.org]]
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| − | * [[Related Wikipedia articles]]
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| − | * [[Should the whole patent system be axed]]?
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| − | * [[Sources of software patent news]]
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| − | ** [[Groklaw]]
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| − | ** [[IFOSSLR patent articles]]
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| − | * [[Specialised patent court]]
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| − | * [[Technical solutions, not technical problems]]
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| − | * [[Timeline]]
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| − | * [[Webpages that disappeared]]
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| − | * [[Which sectors are for and against]]
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| − | * [[Who lobbied for software patents]]
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| − | * [[Why software is different]]
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| − | ==Do our proposals exclude this from patentability?==
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| − | * [[Anti-lock braking example]] (no)
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| − | * [[mp3 audio example]] (yes)
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| − | * [[digital camera image processing example]] (yes)
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| − | * [[Other analyses of the patentability of specific ideas]]
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| − | ==Context and introductions==
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| − | * [[General introduction]]
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| − | * [[Analogies]]
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| − | * [[Choosing words to use in legal proposals]]
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| − | * [[Terminology recommendations]]
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| − | * [[Criteria for patentability]] - ''What'' is patentable?
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| − | * [[Do software patents exist in my area]]?
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| − | * [[Searching for patents]]
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| − | * [[Reading case law]]
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| − | * [[Invention as a whole]]
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| − | * [[Patentable subject matter]]
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| − | * [[Software patents]]
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| − | * [[Patenting software in ROM]]
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| − | ==Court ruling analyses==
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| − | {{court rulings worldwide}}
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| − | ==Patent office decisions==
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| − | ==Organisations==
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| − | ==International agreements==
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| − | * [[International agreements]]
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| − | * [[TRIPS]]
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| − | * [[Europe|EU or Europe]]:
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| − | ** [[European Patent Office]]
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| − | ==Specific patents and infringement suits==
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| − | * [[Xerox Corp v. Google Inc et al (2010, USA)|Xerox vs Google and Yahoo, 2010]]
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| − | * [[Software Tree vs Red Hat, 2009]]
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| − | * [[Microsoft vs TomTom, 2008]]
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| − | * [[Trend Micro vs Barracuda, 2008]]
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| − | * [[Microsoft vs AT&T, 2006]]
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| − | * [[Fotomedia Technologies vs the World 2009]]
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| − | * [[Example software patents]]
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| − | ** [[Microsoft's FAT patents]]
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| − | * [[Books about software and patents]]
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| − | ** [[Gowers Review of Intellectual Property]], Andrew Gowers for HM Treasury UK, December 2006
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| − | ** [[Rethinking the European ICT agenda]], PriceWaterhouseCoopers, September 2004
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| − | ** [[Innovation in Germany, Windows of opportunity]], Deutsche Bank Research, June 2004
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| − | ** [[An Empirical Look at Software Patents]], Bessen and Hunt, March 2004
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| − | ** [[US FTC report on innovation]], US Federal Trade Commission, October 2003
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| − | ** [[Network Competition Through Regulation report]], German Monopoly Commission, 2002
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| − | * [[The EuroLinux petition]]
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| − | * Studies by concerned parties:
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| − | ** [[2008 State of Software Patents]]
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